ADJECTIVE
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representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are
the novel about ghetto life was true to life
true-to-life duck decoys
How To Use true to life In A Sentence
- Sometimes the vehicle redlines and fuel cut-offs aren't true to life.
- Miss Julie C. Gauthier had on exhibition at the New Orleans Exposition, a full-length portrait, true to life, of a colored man, "Pony," a veteran wood-sawer of History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III)
- According to the highbrows, the middlebrow arts relied on glib formulas which were untrue to life's real complexities.
- The Squid And The Whale may sound downbeat and depressing, but it is so true to life, it turns out funny and compassionate.
- Although the main characters in the novel are so true to life, they are imaginary.
- Even if Nichols cheats a bit about a few details, he makes his main characters tragicomically true to life, racily human enough to wrest sympathy from the sourest souls.
- You have to admit that these sketches are true to life.
- The way he tells his stories and jokes is true to life everywhere.
- While they stand before the electorate promising to defend this nation from external threats, their ornateness fails to acknowledge the true to life domestic indigences being forcefully pushed upon our citizens as a consequence. Fresh Faces, Same Bunk
- The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life. The Art of Replicating Masterpieces